Combating Antimicrobial Resistance

World Health Day 2011: combating antimicrobial resistance.

Combating antimicrobial resistance: antimicrobial stewardship program in Taiwan.

Multi-drug-resistant organisms are increasingly recognized as a global public health issue. Healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance are also current challenges to the treatment of infectious diseases in Taiwan. Government health policies and the health care systems play a crucial role in determining the efficacy of interventions to contain antimicrobial resistance. National...

Combating Antimicrobial Resistance: Policy Recommendations to Save Lives

Antimicrobial resistance is recognized as one of the greatest threats to human health worldwide [1]. Drugresistant infections take a staggering toll in the United States (US) and across the globe. Just one organism, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), kills more Americans every year ( 19,000) than emphysema, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, and homicide combined [2]. Almost 2 mill...

Combating antimicrobial resistance: policy recommendations to save lives.

Antimicrobial resistance is recognized as one of the greatest threats to human health worldwide [1]. Drugresistant infections take a staggering toll in the United States (US) and across the globe. Just one organism, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), kills more Americans every year ( 19,000) than emphysema, HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s disease, and homicide combined [2]. Almost 2 mill...

1 Combating Antimicrobial Resistance : Regulatory Strategies And Institutional Capacity

Amnesia is a common, important, but rarely noted side effect of antibiotics. Apart from medical historians, few recall the severe morbidity and mortality once associated with acute bacterial infection. However, decades of antibiotic overuse and misuse have compromised the long-term availability and efficacy of these life-saving therapies. If designed and implemented appropriately, regulation ca...